Sorry to hear that man. Burnout rates are high is spec ed, its just very taxing. If we add that to the cultural disdain for teachers and the money issue it can be hard to keep them. Friend of a friend (physics/math) just quit mid-year of his 7th year in favor of an engineering offer. He was tired of the nonsense and more than doubled his income. I hope you get another good one.

I too am pissed off about work.

The teaching itself is very good.

The bureaucracy is a major PITA.

My boss is a complete #$%T.

I understand the "#" and the "%", and I googled the "$", but I can't figure out the "T".
Is it a pictograph, a very short acronym, or just a typo ?

:lol:

It's a rebus! (Darn, if HLJ had posted that I could have said It's a rebus, Jebus!)

Zen, thanks. I am not glad you have some of the same issues but I am glad I'm not the only one. Gee, Mrs Misery loves her some company, doesn't she? And by 'she' I mean 'me.' ;)

Thanks all. I spoke to her today at length about other things, yet she still hasn't let on that she is leaving.
I found out through other usually reliable sources.
I'm hoping they are somehow wrong, but ...
@griff - apparently she is staying in Spec Ed. I can see the reasons for burnout though.
There have been several others who have already left.
Spec Ed seems to be the forgotten aspect of teaching. They seem more overworked,
overloaded and underpaid than the others. :(

It may be that they are paid from other funds (fed->state->county->district)
than the regular school budgets.

Partially, yes. Griff probably knows more. Perhaps he will elaborate. I'm interested to know.

I swear I think my bank is giving my debit card out to people. This is the second time since Nov that someone has emptied my checking account and now I have to wait 5-10 for a refund. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH This is not a card I use ANYWHERE> It just comes with my checking account. I usually pay cash. No one can tell me why this is happening since I don't use or carry the card.
I especially liked when I reported the fraud that the person helping me at the end of the conversation told me to have a nice day... REALLY??!!! :mad:

CBS News
February 11, 2011 12:26 PM

GOP Proposes Additional $26 Billion in Cuts for 2011

I'm not entirely against this in theory.
Cutting waste is good. Cutting needed services is bad.
good - thats a start.
I'm sure he meant MORE harm.
The guys repeatedly sleeping on the job seems potentially harmful to me. ;)
some good, some bad and some ugly...

I know I keep complaining about my job. I know I should be grateful to have one.

But here we go again. I HAD to put on my calendar once a week to check a certain year's balance for a certain program that I closed out a LONG TIME AGO. Zero balance.

Why do I have to keep checking? Well, today I came in and there is no longer a zero balance. Someone reported something. What? Why didn't I know? Why am I sitting here running reports to see if the new number matches our system? Why am I taking time to do this on a year that was actually completed? And why SHOULD I be spending my time reconciling another program because OUR system has serious failings in reporting to the feds...and I have to fix millions of dollars by hand. Student by student.

I want to throw my hands in the air. I feel like I'm being set up. And yes, I refuse to spend my life here just because everything is so poorly managed.

I'm sick of it. :(

Sorry.

I'm a woman of inaction. No, I'm a woman stuck.

No, I suck. No, it's not my fault. Yes, it's my fault. Failure. Complainer.

Loser.

Words.

They suck. You rock. Please take care to get this right in future.

Thanks.

So the guy who threatened us by phone (who admittted to anger due to PTSD from a stint in the service [have to always be vague} came in and since I was the one who took charge of the issue on Friday (while my boss slipped back into her doored, lockable office) the person waiting on me informed me. Said student also asked for a cow orker by name. Cow orker was like "what's going on?" and I once again went through the whole story, noting "you were not here when it transpired."

Seemingly all is OK at this point.

conversations involving security and managerial support will occur.

Meanwhile, awaiting a response as to the numbers discrepancy.

J's car is still within a few months and a few thousand miles of factory warranty, but for some reason $2K in clutch repair is simply not covered.

Is that because it's considered a wear part, like brake pads?

Don't know, I wasn't involved in the negotiations and don't know what is actually wrong.

but

i would hope a "wear part" would not cause $2K of "wear" at 93K miles

Well, that's about 2 cents per mile, which is less than I spend on tires.

Answer is yes, this is normal wear and tear

vacuum cleaner is dead. I've performed an autopsy and have discovered an overheated and burned out electrical connection on a circuit board. I will fix it tomorrow. I need to go to radio shack and buy some kind of connector that can be soldered to the circuit board in place of the one that is burned up. I will also need to find the matching connector for the wires that lead from the ac supply to the new connector.

*sigh*

We'll see how things go tomorrow.

Sure, want me to hold your beer while you test it? ;)

Or you could go to the thrift store and get a different one for $10.

Pfft. That's girl talk.


Captain V, to the Vorkshop!

The one I have now I got at Goodwill, and still bears the $24.99 price tag. It is a very capable machine and I'm happy to put a couple dollars into it since it's a known quantity unlike some other machine. I do keep my eye open for quality items in good condition during my regular visits to the local thrift shops.

Urgh.
Eavesdroppers hear no good of themselves.
I can't remember if I read that in Enid Blyton or CS Lewis, but it stuck with me.

Just heard some horrible things from Mum while she was talking on the phone to a friend.

I won't go into it, but there were lies, spin and some really quite appalling views.
Next time I will walk away, I promise.

Thanks man!

This is done.

Here's the pc board showing the failed connector.
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A close up of the place where the wire overheated and melted.
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This is the male side of the connector. Both wires look black at the end, but one started out white.
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I couldn't find a Molex connector that matched my situation, so I made do with two separate connectors, each half occupied. I renewed the end of the existing wires with this segment of red and black wire, attached some suitable ends for the connector on the pc board and put it all back together.
Attachment 38165

Sadly, I had two screws left over. Probably the ones that secure the adapter plate ffs. Now I have to take it all apart again. :facepalm:

But it *DOES WORK*, I tested it and it works great. Total cost of supplies used: under two bucks.

I think I may have a slipped disc. I am hobbling about the place, occasionally getting stuck (particularly when i've had to lie down for a bit...getting back up is horrid) and unable to find a comfortable position. Am stood up typing this.

Am s'pposed to be going to Brighton on Wednesday to a conference...presenting Thursday morning...not sure I'll be ok for the 5 hour train journey.

Dana - get some pain meds!!!

Yeah. Had a phone consult with doc, and am waiting on a pick up of some super strength anti inflammatories.

I've had muscle spasms in my back muscles, excruciating, disabling. Anti-inflammatories and muscle relaxants did the trick for me. Good luck.

Being stuck living with a parent in my awful hometown. This place is sapping my life force.

Is it the weather or the parent or a combination of the two?

Neither.
...Not really sure what the weather has to do with anything?
I like my dad, but he's 61 and living with him is kind of making me be 61 as well.
And this town is just awful. There are no jobs here, and hopeless public transport makes it almost impossible to leave. My specific part of the town is the worst. I live in a suburb where there is nothing but houses for literally a mile in every direction. I also have an ongoing foot issue which prevent me from walking a long distance.
I effectively have no freedom and there is nothing in my life whatsoever apart from what I can do in my room; ie. internet, reading, vainly applying for jobs and funding for postgraduate study.
I feel like I'm trapped here wasting my life and I don't know how I'm going to get out.

:lol: Nothing but houses for a whole mile?

Not to make light of your situation Blueflare, I know it must be very hard living without transportation. I would never be able to do it. Because suburbs are, like, the only thing most middle-class Americans even know--and they're frequently a lot bigger than a 2-mile diameter.

True, but cars are more affordable. Suburbs are really designed exclusively for people who have cars. If you don't, it's like a prison. :/

They're not really more affordable, they're just a higher priority.

I can't eee. i lost one set of newish lenses in the pool, the chlorine has totally fucked up my eyes after 5 solid hours in the pool, My eyes are too sore to put lenses in, i can't find glasses vaguely near the right prescription and my skin is burning. they need to fix the chemical levels in that pool...... :(


pls forgive typing more than usual, had to take lenses out.

oh and I have reading homework to do

Have you thought about getting prescription goggles?

FTFY

:lol2:

You can't wear goggles for lifeguard training, that's the problem.

I can see OK without the lenses -certainly well enough to rescue people, not well enough to drive, but they do help protect my eyes from the chlorine. No more, though. I lost one the first time I truly opened my eyes underwater and the second the second. astigmatism lenses are not cheap.

you have no idea how much that is helping me tonight :lol: I have all my windows cranked up to granny-vision level. i just wish my eyes would calm down so i can put my lenses back in

I think a hawk killed the ducks we rescued. I shoud have had a cover over them.

:cry: poor duckies

Easter's still ahead of you. There will be more duckies. Get your cover ready now.

;)
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Damn! Post orphaned!!

I'm crushed. Elizabeth, my 18 yoa daughter, dropped out of school with only 6 weeks left. She has missed a great deal of school due to illness and she found out she wasn't going to graduate. Trying times, but she has decided to take the GED rather than repeat the fall semester & graduate in Dec.

will she be able to graduate with her pals with this new plan?

should have put DucksNuts on the job then.....

now my gripe. i got fucked up pretty good last sunday in a "boating accident" damn near broke my tailbone again (would've been teh turd time) when the driver, not the captain, launched the boat over a huge wake on galveston bay. everyone was bounced off the boat floorboards. i'm jacked for a week at least.

Elizabeth wouldn't graduate with her friends if she repeated the next semester. I respect her decision, it just hurts because I wanted to see my baby in her cap & gown

will she graduate or at least walk with her pals and cap and gown with this new GED track?

eta: I know a GED is not graduating.

Big S, She should be able to "walk" with her class. The only difference being that when she gets her "diploma," inside it will instead be a congratulatory sheet from the school instead of an actual diploma.
Been there, done that - but for different reasons.

fuckingfuck.

in the space of five minutes I've smashed the tip of my left forefinger with my hammer and stabbed the center of my right middle finger with my awl. This costume has my blood, sweat and tears in it. And by tears I mean swear words. aaaauuugh.

YOU must Suffer for your art !!

or mebbe y'awl oughta be more careful.

you're both right.

but I'm punnier.

(eventually)

You should meet my Dad BigV. lol